Colophon – Oonagh Young Gallery
Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin
20 September–28 October 2012
“We must try to invent new techniques - unrecognisable - which are unlike any previous method - to avoid childishness, ridicule – make our world unlike any other - where previous standards don’t apply, which must be new, like the technique. Nobody must realise that the artist is worthless, that he’s an abnormal, inferior being who squirms and twists like a worm to survive, nobody must ever catch him out as being naïve, everything must be presented as being perfect, based on unknown, unquestionable rules.”
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Teorema, 1968
An exhibition of sculptural assemblage and photo works, the exhibition Colophon is centred around a large-scale text piece based on a section of dialogue from Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1968 film Teorema, which delivers a monologue on the importance of the new in art. Wavering between confidence, doubt, and despair, it speaks of the burden on the artist in constantly bringing new images and objects into being – suggesting the necessity of responsibility inherent in the creative act.
Colophon was staged as a 2-part exhibition alongside ‘Something New Under the Sun’ at the Royal Hibernian Academy
Installation photography: Denis Mortell